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Tax Incentives and Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria

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George T. Peters, 2Bariyima D. Kiabel,
MBA; MRes; ACA,Ph.D; FCTI; CPA; MNIM
1,2
Department of AccountancyFaculty of Management Sciences,Rivers State University of Science and
Technology,Port Harcourt, Nigeria.

Abstract: Given the significance of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to economic growth and the use of tax
incentives as a strategy among government of various countries to attract FDI, this study examines the influence
of tax incentives in the decision of an investor to locate FDI in Nigeria. Data were drawn from annual statistical
bulletin of the Central Bank of Nigeria and the World Bank World Development Indicators Database. The work
employs a model of multiple regressions using static Error Correction Modelling (ECM) to determine the time
series properties of tax incentives captured by annual tax revenue as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product
(GDP)and FDI. The result showed that FDI response to tax incentives is negatively significant, that is, increase
in tax incentives does not bring about a corresponding increase in FDI. Based on the findings, the paper
recommends, amongst others, that dependence on tax incentives should be reduced and more attention be put on
other incentives strategies such as stable economic reforms and stable political climate.
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment, Tax Incentives, Nigeria, Economic Growth.

I. Introduction
Empirical and theoretical evidence over decades suggest that FDI is an important source of capital for
investment. It can contribute to Gross Domestic Product (GDP), gross fixed capital formation (total investment
in a host economy) and balance of payments (BOPs) especially when there is good economic conditions in the
host economy such as the level of domestic investment/savings, the mode of entry (merger and acquisitions of
new investments) and the sector involved as well as the host countrys ability to regulate foreign investment
(Toward Earths Summit, 2002).
FDI can complement domestic development effort of host economies by: (a) increasing financial
resources and development; (b) boosting export competitiveness; (c) generating employment opportunities and
strengthening the skill base; (d) protecting the environment and social responsibility; and (e) enhancing
technological capabilities via four basic channels which are the internalization of research and development,
migration of skilled labour, linkages with suppliers or purchasers in the host economies and horizontal linkages
with competing or complementary companies in the same industry (Raian 2004 ; OECD 2002).
On the causal relationship between FDI and growth for three countries - Chile, Malaysia and Thailand
Chaudhury&Mavrotas (2003) found a bi-directional causality running from FDI to GDP (a proxy for growth)
and vice versa. However, the thesis that FDI determines growth was not established in the case of Chile where a
unidirectional relationship was found running from GDP to FDI instead. In support of the above findings,
Alfaro (2003) revisited the impact of FDI on economic growth by examining the role FDI inflows play in
promoting growth in primary, manufacturing and service sectors of 47 countries between 1980 and 1999 and
found that FDI flows into different sectors of the economy and exert different effects on economic growth. FDI
into the primary sector was found to have a negative effect on growth while that of the manufacturing sector
impacted positively on growth.
With regard to less developed countries, macro and micro empirical analysis suggest that overall FDI
have positive impact on economic growth. In many countries FDI constitute the core of the economys growth.
In Bolivia, for instance, Flexner (2000) found that FDI plays a crucial role for a number of reasons: it positively
impacts growth by increasing total investment and improving productivity through diffusion of advanced
technology and managerial skills. A study across developing countries for the period 1990-2000 by (Makola,
2003) showed that FDI was a significant determinant of economic growth across the 12 - case studied
economies and was estimated to be three to six times more efficient than domestic investment. This, according
to (Makola, 2003), is the capacity of FDI to produce a crowding-in effect.
Based on the foregoing, the crucial question then is whether tax incentives is a significant driver of
FDI. Is it possible to stimulate FDI activity significantly using tax incentives or does it have only a minimal
impact on FDI? Or is it possible that the FDI was driven by other political and economic factors besides tax
incentives beyond fiscal control? There is a need therefore, to re-appraise the effectiveness of tax incentives
generally in the promotion of inflow of FDI. As pointed out by Arogundade (2005), factors such as security,
currency convertibility, political stability and market or source of supplies are known to weigh higher on an
investors scale of preferences than fiscal incentives. As he further agued, there is no consensus yet on the role
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of tax incentives in the decision of a potential investor to locate FDI among different countries. While some feel
that it ranks low, others feel that it significantly influences the location of FDI.
This paper therefore intends to investigate empirically the extent of effectiveness of tax incentives in
attracting FDI in Nigeria within the period 1980-2012. Furthermore, we test the neoclassical investment theorys
prediction that tax incentives lowers the user cost of capital and raises investment holds in an economy.
Empirical studies in this area, in the Nigerian context is scanty. As Arogundade (2005) has observed, there is
need for a review of tax incentive policy in Nigeria as many of these incentive packages have decorated the
statute books for so long without anybody undertaking a survey to determine their effectiveness or continued
relevance. This study intends to fill this gap in the literature. Specifically, the study will provide an overview of
the various steps, tools, aspects and issues relating to tax incentives in Nigeria. It will also provide policy
makers and analyst with a framework to analysing the usefulness of FDI based on the level of growth involved
and suggest reforms to adjust or move towards best practices. Furthermore, it is expected that this study would
provide an indication of, as well as, a guide for further studies. Thus, the empirical evidence provided by the
study will be of great interest both for application and scientific research.
The rest of this paper will be organized as follows: section two reviews literature associated with FDI
and tax incentives in general and in particular for Nigeria. The third section focuses on the research
methodology, section four presents the results and implications and section five provides the conclusion and
recommendations.

II. Literature Review

2.1 Foreign Direct Investment in Nigeria
Attracting FDI has been a preoccupation of many economies of the world especially Less Developed
Countries(LDCs) who need such investment to boost domestic capital. As a cheap source of external finance,
FDI complements domestic savings and encourages growth via investment financing. More so as a source of
capital, FDI is reputed to be more stable than other types of financial flows as foreign investors who have access
to foreign sources of capital are not constrained by the underdeveloped domestic capital market or by the ability
of the domestic economy to generate foreign cash flow from the export of domestic production (Heimann,
2001). Again, other economic reasons asserted for the pull towards these kind of investment is access to western
markets, new job creation opportunities, access to advanced managerial techniques, access to advanced
technology which stimulates technological adaptation and innovation that leads to faster economic growth and
facilitation of privatization and restrictions of the economy as a whole.
In line with this incentive, various regimes of the Nigerian government have also developed various
legislations over time to improve investment conditions in order to attract FDI. Nigeria as one of the most
populous developing countries is striving to attain international competitiveness among other countries in Africa
as far as FDI inflows is concerned. Table 3 and Figure 1 show FDI flows in Nigeria.

Table 3: Evaluation of FDI in Nigeria from 2000-2011 (millions naira)

Year 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005
FDI 1,140,137,660 1,190,632,024 1,874,042,130 2,005,390,033 1,874,033,035 4,967,898,866
Year 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
FDI 4,534,794,015 5,167,441,548 7,145,016,198 7,029,701,142 5,133,465,493 8,025,110,597

Source: CBN Statistical Bulletin, 2012

Fig 1: FDI Flows into Nigeria, 1980-2011 (Millions of naira)

Source: CBN Statistical Bulletin, 2012

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Figure 1 shows FDI for Nigeria from 1980-2011. Currently, according to Corporate Nigeria (2013),
Nigeria has made it to the top of being among the 20 global destinations for FDI. FDI continued to grow
uninterrupted since the beginning of the transformation period such that, according to Central Bank of Nigeria
(2011), Nigerias FDI quadrupled from 2003 to 2011. FDI has grown from a modest US$1.14 billion in 2001
and US$2.03 billion in 2003 to US$7.09 billion in 2009 net inflow making the country the nineteenth largest
recipient of FDI in the world.

Composition of FDI in Nigeria

Composition of FDI according to sectoral allocation in Nigeria is available from 1990. The principal
recipient of Nigerias FDI has been the oil and gas sectors, manufacturing sector, infrastructure development,
services and consumer goods sector. Empirical assessment of the figure shows that FDI inflows in Nigeria have
been heavily concentrated in the hydrocarbon and mining sectors. In recent years FDI inflows to the
manufacturing sector has declined, while that of the oil and agricultural sectors have surged. Combinational, the
two sectors account for 84.4 percent of total FDI over the period, 1990-2011.

Country of Origin of FDI in Nigeria

As Table 3 shows, the principal sources of FDI for Nigeria have been the United States of America
(USA), Latin America and increasingly Europe. The USA presence especially in Nigerias oil sector is
registered through Chevron, Texaco and Exxon Mobil which has an investment stock of US$3.4 billion as at
2008. In 1990 FDI from USA represented roughly 67.8 percent of total FDI. The USA is the leading investor in
Nigerias oil, agriculture and manufacturing sector with the exception being the service sector; between 2010
and 2012 the US accounted for 45.6 percent of all the FDI inflows to Nigeria. Although the USA nominal FDI
investment has increased considerably within the decade, its total share, however, in terms of percentage
contribution has dropped from 67.8 percent in 2010 to 34.5 percent in 2012. However, the US dominant role
was taken over by the Japanese investors in the 1990s whose share of FDI increased from 23.0 percent to 50.5
percent in the same period. The UK one of the host countries of Shell is another relevant foreign investor in
Nigeria accounting for about 20% of Nigerias total foreign investment. Other relevant sources of FDI included
Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Italy, Netherland, France, South Africa and increasingly China which is the second
largest trading partner to Nigeria in Africa after South Africa. From US$3.billion in 2003, Chinas FDI in
Nigeria is reported to have increased to US$ 6 billion with the Nigerian oil sector receiving about 75% of this
amount.
Table 4: Components of Net Capital Flow by Origin
Year UK USA W. Europe Others
1980 27.9 43.9 26.5 6.2
1981 55 43 51 7
1982 269.8 28.5 76.5 38.5
1983 127 32.1 35.5 34.2
1984 178.2 36.1 48.7 66.9
1985 198.5 36.7 49.8 32.1
1986 116.5 46.9 90.9 62.1
1987 241.4 82.3 59.7 44.1
1988 85.3 151.2 84.7 75.7
1989 629.4 251.7 148.3 165.1
1990 781.4 557.3 98.2 94.9
1991 391.6 55.3 416.1 1238.5
1992 245.7 163.9 385.6 94.3
1993 1416.1 252.9 733.6 331.9
1994 141.1 754.3 419.8 434.5
1995 3023.8 640 488.7 276.3
1996 481.3 329.1 470.4 477.4
1997 748.4 130.9 777.4 285.8
1998 3480 569.3 274.3 5148.2
1999 1159.6 38.3 885.7 636.1
2000 157 0 820.4 315.8
2001 2486 98 464 863.4
2002 3729 163 641.3 1265.4
2003 5594 253 1045.7 1806.6
2004 5960 263 1090 5903.5
2005 7748 343.1 1417 7674.6
2006 12396.8 549 2267.2 12339.2
2007 15996 786.3 3034 15424
2008 16018.171 844.66 3316.92 18730.73
2009 18075.91 979.92 3832.3 22097.78
2010 20133.648 1115.18 4347.68 25464.83
2011 22191.386 1250.44 4863.06 28831.88
Source: CBN Statistical Bulletin, 2012

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2.2 Tax Incentives and FDI
Tax incentives have been a major policy instrument used by various governments especially
developing countries and those in transition where there is shortage of capital and lags in technological
development. According to survey conducted by the OECD (2000) for 50 countries made up of 45 developing
countries and transition economies and 5 less developed countries selected from the various regions of the
world, almost 85% of the countries surveyed offered one form of tax incentives or the other to attract some form
of FDI.
A lot of analysis has been done to determine the effect of tax incentives on FDI from both selective
surveys of international investors and time series econometric analysis. Barlow &Wenders (1995) study which
is one of the earliest surveys on the effect of tax incentives on FDI examined 247 US companies on their
strategies to invest abroad. The result of the survey showed that together tax incentives (10%) and host
countrys government encouragement to investors (11%) made up 21% of the responses ranked fourth place
behind determinants such as currency convertibility, host country political stability and guarantee against
expropriation.
Econometric studies carried out on the bivariate relationship between FDI and tax incentives seem to
confirm the above survey that though tax considerations are important in the decision of foreign investors to
invest in any host economy, it however, do not carry as much weight as market and political factors and in some
cases tax incentives were found to have little or no effect on the locations of FDI.Agodo (1978), carried out a
study to determine the impact of tax concession of FDI using 33 US firms having 46 manufacturing investment
in 20 African countries. The result showed that tax incentives were found to be insignificant determinant of FDI
both in simple and multiple regression. Hassett& Hubbard (2002), discovered that investment incentives create
significant distortions by encouraging inefficient investment and that low inflation is the best investment
incentives than tax Incentives.
However, studies conducted by the World Bank group investment climate advisory services using a
series of investor surveys and econometric analysis to determine the effect of taxation on FDI in developing
countries in 40 Latin American, Caribbean and African countries between 1985-2004, showed, specifically, that
FDI is affected by tax rates with a 10 percent point increase in corporate income tax rate lowering FDI by 0.45
percent point of GDP.
Empirical literature on the connection between FDI and tax incentives in the case of developing
countries from the perspective of Walid(2010), who examined the economic and financial risks on FDI on
macro level from 1997-2007 using multiple linear regression model revealed that there exist significant and
positive relationship between FDI and economic and financial variables utilized for the study. In conclusion, the
study recommended promotion of FDI via tax incentives to attract new investments.
Significant to the present study is the empirical analysis conducted by Babatunde&Adepeju (2012) for
Nigeria to determine the impact of tax incentives on FDI in the oil and gas sector in Nigeria using data for 21
years. Using Karl Pearson coefficient of correlation statistical method of analysis in analysing the data collected,
it was found that there is a significant impact of tax incentives on FDI in the oil and gas sector of Nigeria. Also,
the study found that the major determinants of FDI in Nigeria are openness to trade and availability of natural
resources on FDI.
Finally, a review of the literature carried out by Mooij&Ederveen (2005), found that most studies
reviews on the relationship between tax incentives and FDI reported a negative relationship between taxation
and FDI but with a wide variability in the various tax elasticity of FDI inflow. This variability, according to
Mooij&Ederveen (2005), vary depending on host countrys political, environmental and economic conditions.
The reviewed literature concluded that the influence of taxes on FDI is complex and depends on a number of
difficult to measure factors. Thus more empirical analysis is required to shed more light on the role of taxation
amongst key factors influencing FDI investment decisions.
Based on the foregoing, the following hypothesis was tested:
H0: Tax Incentives in Nigeria as measured by the annual tax revenue as a percentage of Gross Domestic
Product (GDP) is not significantly related with FDI

III. Methodology
This section is aimed at describing the econometric methodology adopted to analyse the determinants
of FDI and undertakes an empirical assessment of the impacts of tax incentives on FDI in Nigeria. We utilized
econometric data covering the period 1980-2011. We also made use of data on net external FDI inflow, effective
tax rate in Nigeria, GDP, openness to trade, population, exchange rate and inflation (proxies for macroeconomic
stability). The data on FDI, tax revenue and GDP were taken from the Central Bank of Nigeria statistical
bulletin, 2012 while data on exchange rate, inflation rate, population and trade openness were extracted from
World Banks World Development Indicators. The choice of this period is to take into consideration the period

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of major economic reforms in Nigeria such as National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy
(NEEDS) and Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP).
This study adopts the static Error Correction Model (ECM) conducted using annual data from Central
Bank of Nigeria statistical bulletin on FDI and proxies of tax incentives for Nigeria. The use of Granger
causality tests is to trace the causality between the economic variables as it yields valuable information in terms
of time patterns and can be particularly interesting in comparative analysis.
Before estimating the model we use the Augmented Dickey Fuller (ADF) tests (Dickey &Fuller, 1981) and
Phillip-Peron (PP) unit root tests, also to test for co-integration using the Johanssons co-integration tests that
yields the log-likelihood estimates for the unconstrained co-integration vectors thus establishing the error
correction model (ECM). These data were processed by Excel software to take logarithms of all variables, then
the E-views software were used to examine the relationship between the variables according to linear regression
equation.
The model adopted for this study is simply a modification of the standard gravity model of bilateral
FDI flows, augmented by including effective tax rates variable as parameter of interest specified as follows:
= 0 + 1 + 1 + 2 + 1 + 1 + +
Where:
FDINET = Net inflow of FDI in Nigeria in a given year; GDP = Gross Domestic Product in a given
year; ETR = Annual Tax Revenue as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Following the works
ofBabatunde&Adepeju (2012) and Edmiston, Mudd&Valev (2003); INF = Inflation Rate in percentage; EXCH
= Bilateral Exchange Rate between Nigeria naira and $US, POP = Aggregate population of Nigeria; TOP =
level of openness to trade; i =FDI to recipient country; j = year; t and = error term. All the variables are
measured in their log forms.

IV. Results
Table 1 (Appendix) presents the descriptive statistics of the main variables used in the analysis. The
table shows that the mean effective tax rate for the period under consideration was 1.76 with standard deviation
of 0.39; that of FDINET was 21.04. Exchange rate and inflation showed a mean value of 60.46 and 20.61 with a
high standard deviation of 61.41 and 18.16 respectively. The mean values for GDP, population, trade openness
and Net flow of FDI in Nigeria were 14.14, 12.25, 3.96 and 21.04 respectively.
Table 2 (Appendix) depicts the correlation matrix showing the degree of correlation between the
variables. FDI is shown to be negatively related to effective tax rate and rate of inflation and positively related
to GDP, population, openness to trade and exchange rate with high degree of correlation of 89, 59, 70 and 83
percent respectively. The correlation matrix depicts that FDI in Nigeria is negatively correlated with tax
incentives to the tune of 44 percent.

Unit root tests

Granger &Newbold (1974) and Granger (1986) have shown that if time series variables are non-
stationary, the time series econometric study becomes inadequate. That is, regression coefficients with non-
stationary variables would more than likely yield spurious and misleading results. It thus indicates that the times
series variables have to be stationary (finite means, variance and auto variance) for them to be valid (Gujarati,
1997). To overcome this problem we test for stationarity of the dependent and independent variables employing
the Group Unit Test comprising PP and ADF tests. The results of the tests are presented in Table 3 (Appendix).
Table 3 (Appendix) indicates that the time series of Net FDI Inflow, Gross Domestic Product as an indicator of
growth, population of Nigeria, openness to trade, effective tax rate, exchange rate and inflation are non-
stationary (we cannot conclude to reject H0) at 5% level of significance, since the ADF and PP value of each
variable at 5% level is greater than the McKinnon 5% critical values (p-value is higher than 5%). That means
the series has a unit root problem. The first difference however, we found that they are stationary as calculated t-
statistics is lower than the critical values of ADF and PP at 5% level. This implies that we reject the null
hypothesis that there is a unit root (a series is a non-stationary process) at 5% significant level. Since all the
variables are stationary at first difference, therefore, it is a 1(1) stochastic process. The findings imply that it is
reasonable to proceed with test for co-integration relationship among combination of the series.

Co-integration tests
The summary of Johansson co-integration tests are presented in Table 4 (Appendix). The test rejects
the null hypothesis at 5% level of significance which proves the existence of co-integration relationship among
the variables of the model. This result thus indicates that in the long run, the dependent variables can efficiently
be predicted using the specified independent variables.

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Granger causality tests
Table 5 (Appendix) presents the results of the pair wise Granger causality tests among the variables of
the model. The result depicts that the null hypothesis that independent variable do not granger causes on FDI
could be rejected safely at 1 percent level a bi-directional relationship runs from independent variables to FDI
and vice versa. Specifically, a unidirectional relationship runs from GDP to FDINET, EXCH to FDINET and
INF to FDINET. This is consistent with the expectations and realities of the Nigerian economy. However,
Granger causality could not be established from POP to FDINET, TOP to FDINET and ETR to FDINET.

Discussion of findings
The model indicates that Net flow of FDI in Nigeria in a particular year is determined by first lag of
FDI in Nigeria and Effective Rate of Taxation although both of these variables had a negative impact on Net
Flow of FDI. This finding is in line with the conclusions arrived at by Mooij&Ederveen (2005), that most
empirical review on the relationship between tax incentives and FDI usually find a negative relationship
between the constructs although with the varied tax elasticity of FDI. It is also in line with the empirical work by
Agodo (1978) for 33 US manufacturing firms as well as findings of Hassett&Hubbard (2002) who averred that
investment incentives create significant distortions thus encouraging inefficient investment. Also, the result of
the study showed that there was no significant impact of trade openness, population, exchange rate, inflation,
and GDP on FDI in Nigeria. The results are thus in line with similar studies such as Nwankwo (2006) and
Babatunde&Adepeju (2012).
The coefficient of determination R2 is 0.641948 (Appendix 6), indicates that about 64 percent of the
total variations in measure of Net flow of FDI are explained by the variations in included independent variables.
This shows that our model explains large proportion of variations in Net flow of FDI in Nigeria. The model also
represents a good measure of fit. The F-statistic shows overall significance of the model. The F-statistic is
significant at 5% level. The results suggest the inflation rate (INF) has the correct sign and is significant at 5%.
More so, the Durbin Watson statistics shows that autocorrelation do not exist between the series of the
model. A unit change in trade openness, rate of exchange and inflation will culminate to an increase of 0.468,
0.0055 and 0.0065 unit change in Net flow of FDI in the short-run. The result further shows that in the short run,
a unit change in the GDP and Population Rate will induce 0.136 and 0.036 reduction in Net flow of FDI but
were not significant.
A crucial parameter in the estimation of the short-run dynamic model is the coefficient of the error-
correction term which measures the speed of adjustment of Net flow of FDI to its equilibrium level. Thus the
speed of adjustment coefficients is negative and significant. This indicates that any deviation from equilibrium
would be adjusted for in the next period at the rate of 52 percent.

V. Conclusion And Recomendations

This paper provides some observations taken from the empirical studies and examines the possible
effects of a change in tax policy on FDI in Nigeria. In theory, the fiscal incentives offered by a developing host
country which lower its effective tax rate will in most cases be effective in attracting the needed FDI. Using
linear regression analysis the result of the study indicates that response of FDI to tax incentives is negatively
significant. The above findings have important policy implications: dependence of tax incentive for Nigeria
should be significantly reduced. According to literature reviewed, Nigeria might be enjoying FDI because of the
vast availability of natural resources (oil and gas) as such loosing huge chunk of Nigerian finances to tax
incentives might instead have the negative effect that was shown. Thus it is suggested that other incentives such
as political risk, stable economic reforms should be considered as a pivot for FDI in Nigeria instead.
Furthermore, it is suggested that effects of tax incentives can be checked on disaggregated sectors such as
agriculture (Ironkwe& Peters, 2015) and manufacturing as on the whole decrease in revenue as a result of
incentives reduces FDI inflow in Nigeria.

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APPENDIX
Table 1: Summary of Descriptive Statistics
FDINET GDP POP TOP ETR EXCH INF
Mean 21.04352 14.14275 12.24858 3.964317 1.755627 60.45940 20.60818
Median 20.89775 14.80977 11.62758 4.090468 1.769996 21.88610 13.40762
Maximum 23.25264 17.54061 18.93124 4.404434 2.950764 157.4252 72.83550
Minimum 19.05813 10.77100 11.22286 3.161623 0.494564 0.546400 5.382220
Std. Dev. 1.085557 2.360726 2.147331 0.344786 0.387319 61.40977 18.15888
Skewness 0.207434 -0.115091 2.800474 -1.128111 -0.206746 0.384191 1.538210
Kurtosis 2.324140 1.570779 8.947209 3.264627 7.128935 1.338953 4.093019

Jarque-Bera 0.864740 2.881527 91.76738 7.095777 23.67624 4.605545 14.65620

Probability 0.648969 0.236747 0.000000 0.028785 0.000007 0.099981 0.000657

Sum 694.4362 466.7109 404.2032 130.8224 57.93570 1995.160 680.0698

Sum Sq. Dev. 37.70991 178.3368 147.5530 3.804083 4.800522 120677.1 10551.84

Observations 33 33 33 33 33 33 33

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Table 2: Summary of Correlation Matrices

FDINET GDP POP TOP
ETR EXCH INF
- -
FDINE 0.896993878297 0.587227523464 0.7043085987251 0.4460539701253 0.830010090283 0.0845640465105
T 1 002 786 43 12 885 918
- -
0.8969938782970 0.529680929177 0.7377014231411 0.3265931235160 0.916310864111 0.1696072625982
GDP 02 1 655 11 8 749 59
- -
0.5872275234647 0.529680929177 0.3113520691489 0.5420450248967 0.559715409681 0.1283166464324
POP 86 655 1 5 8 673 46
- -
0.7043085987251 0.737701423141 0.311352069148 0.0301729263830 0.586358718858 0.0332353286054
TOP 43 111 95 1 32 325 236
- - - - - -
0.4460539701253 0.326593123516 0.542045024896 0.0301729263830 0.248090780311 0.0570987267650
ETR 12 08 78 32 1 212 053
- -
0.8300100902838 0.916310864111 0.559715409681 0.5863587188583 0.2480907803112 0.3290882238080
EXCH 85 749 673 25 12 1 93
- - - - - -
0.0845640465105 0.169607262598 0.128316646432 0.0332353286054 0.0570987267650 0.329088223808
INF 918 259 446 236 053 093 1

Table 3: Summary of Group Unit Root Test at 5% Level of Significant

Group unit root test: Summary
Date: 18/11/13 Time: 04:55
Sample: 1980 2012
Series: FDINET, GDP, POP, TOP, ETR, EXCH, INF
Exogenous variables: Individual effects
Automatic selection of maximum lags
Automatic selection of lags based on SIC: 0 to 1
Newey-West bandwidth selection using Bartlett kernel

Cross-
Method Statistic Prob.** sections Obs
Null: Unit root (assumes common unit root process)
Levin, Lin & Chu t* 0.54264 0.7063 7 221

Null: Unit root (assumes individual unit root process)

Im, Pesaran and Shin W-stat 1.63987 0.9495 7 221
ADF - Fisher Chi-square 12.4633 0.5692 7 221
PP - Fisher Chi-square 11.3826 0.6558 7 224

Null: No unit root (assumes common unit root process)

Hadri Z-stat 7.52883 0.0000 7 231

** Probabilities for Fisher tests are computed using an asymptotic Chi

-square distribution. All other tests assume asymptotic normality.

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Table 4: Co-integration Test

Date: 18/11/13 Time: 04:58
Sample (adjusted): 1982 2012
Included observations: 31 after adjustments
Trend assumption: Linear deterministic trend
Series: FDINET GDP POP TOP ETR EXCH INF
Lags interval (in first differences): 1 to 1

Unrestricted Cointegration Rank Test (Trace)

Hypothesized Trace 0.05

No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**

None * 0.849479 153.1187 125.6154 0.0004

At most 1 0.720519 94.41544 95.75366 0.0616
At most 2 0.487279 54.89598 69.81889 0.4234
At most 3 0.390116 34.18725 47.85613 0.4916
At most 4 0.303546 18.85818 29.79707 0.5031
At most 5 0.213818 7.643833 15.49471 0.5042
At most 6 0.005991 0.186266 3.841466 0.6660

Trace test indicates 1 co-integrating eqn(s) at the 0.05 level

* denotes rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level
**MacKinnon-Haug-Michelis (1999) p-values

Unrestricted Co-integration Rank Test (Maximum Eigenvalue)

Hypothesized Max-Eigen 0.05

No. of CE(s) Eigenvalue Statistic Critical Value Prob.**

None * 0.849479 58.70330 46.23142 0.0015

At most 1 0.720519 39.51946 40.07757 0.0577
At most 2 0.487279 20.70874 33.87687 0.7059
At most 3 0.390116 15.32906 27.58434 0.7218
At most 4 0.303546 11.21435 21.13162 0.6259
At most 5 0.213818 7.457567 14.26460 0.4365
At most 6 0.005991 0.186266 3.841466 0.6660

Max-eigenvalue test indicates 1 co-integrating eqn(s) at the 0.05 level

* denotes rejection of the hypothesis at the 0.05 level
**MacKinnon-Haug-Michelis (1999) p-values

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Table 5: Granger Causality Test

Pairwise Granger Causality Tests
Date: 18/11/13 Time: 04:57
Sample: 1980 2012
Lags: 2

Null Hypothesis: Obs F-Statistic Probability

GDP does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 3.38074 0.04954

FDINET does not Granger Cause GDP 0.10063 0.90462

POP does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 0.91993 0.41113

FDINET does not Granger Cause POP 2.50404 0.10127

TOP does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 0.17445 0.84089

FDINET does not Granger Cause TOP 0.99809 0.38227

ETR does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 0.92654 0.40860

FDINET does not Granger Cause ETR 1.51312 0.23899

EXCH does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 2.89392 0.07333

FDINET does not Granger Cause EXCH 0.45877 0.63708

INF does not Granger Cause FDINET 31 2.98630 0.06800

FDINET does not Granger Cause INF 0.56521 0.57507

POP does not Granger Cause GDP 31 0.30422 0.74029

GDP does not Granger Cause POP 1.91932 0.16693

TOP does not Granger Cause GDP 31 0.65029 0.53018

GDP does not Granger Cause TOP 3.26770 0.05420

ETR does not Granger Cause GDP 31 0.14585 0.86499

GDP does not Granger Cause ETR 0.71966 0.49636

EXCH does not Granger Cause GDP 31 0.98634 0.38647

GDP does not Granger Cause EXCH 4.47293 0.02140

INF does not Granger Cause GDP 31 3.33116 0.05153

GDP does not Granger Cause INF 0.81989 0.45155

TOP does not Granger Cause POP 31 0.24261 0.78634

POP does not Granger Cause TOP 0.06962 0.93292

ETR does not Granger Cause POP 31 0.15350 0.85847

POP does not Granger Cause ETR 7.95044 0.00202

EXCH does not Granger Cause POP 31 2.71285 0.08510

POP does not Granger Cause EXCH 0.00478 0.99523

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INF does not Granger Cause POP 31 0.15286 0.85902

POP does not Granger Cause INF 0.07938 0.92391

ETR does not Granger Cause TOP 31 0.33766 0.71652

TOP does not Granger Cause ETR 0.37655 0.68991

EXCH does not Granger Cause TOP 31 0.65840 0.52609

TOP does not Granger Cause EXCH 2.21860 0.12894

INF does not Granger Cause TOP 31 0.36428 0.69818

TOP does not Granger Cause INF 0.11851 0.88872

EXCH does not Granger Cause ETR 31 0.98354 0.38747

ETR does not Granger Cause EXCH 0.19072 0.82751

INF does not Granger Cause ETR 31 0.11596 0.89097

ETR does not Granger Cause INF 0.93185 0.40658

INF does not Granger Cause EXCH 31 0.96646 0.39368

EXCH does not Granger Cause INF 0.79035 0.46429

Table 6: Parsimonious Static ECM Regression

Dependent Variable: D(FDINET)
Method: Least Squares
Date: 18/11/13 Time: 05:09
Sample (adjusted): 1982 2012
Included observations: 31 after adjustments

Variable Coefficient Std. Error t-Statistic Prob.

C 0.990486 1.472193 0.672796 0.5081

D(FDINET(-1)) -0.440628 0.156022 -2.824144 0.0099
ETR -0.460523 0.269054 -1.711639 0.1010
TOP 0.467941 0.418432 1.118321 0.2755
POP -0.036098 0.050939 -0.708663 0.4860
EXCH 0.005467 0.004160 1.314212 0.2023
INF 0.006596 0.004770 1.382832 0.1806
GDP -0.136885 0.136271 -1.004508 0.3261
ECM(-1) -0.528488 0.229560 -2.302173 0.0312

R-squared 0.641948 Mean dependent var 0.101331

Adjusted R-squared 0.511747 S.D. dependent var 0.585316
S.E. of regression 0.408990 Akaike info criterion 1.287448
Sum squared resid 3.680002 Schwarz criterion 1.703767
Log likelihood -10.95545 F-statistic 4.930452
Durbin-Watson stat 2.014248 Prob(F-statistic) 0.001375

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